Joint Cook Inlet Salmon Task Force

Enabling Legislation

• SCR 21 [PDF:17KB]
• BASIS information on SCR 21 

Agenda

Incomplete Draft Report

• Incomplete Draft Report with cover letter from Rep. Craig Johnson [PDF:645KB]

Juneau Meeting - Information Presented on January 29, 2009

• Meeting Audio [MP3:69.04MB]
• 2008 Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Salmon Fishery Summary, ADF&G - January 26, 2009 [PDF:173KB]
• Revised Comparison of Recent Sport and Commercial Fisheries Economic Studies - Gunnar Knapp, Professor of Economics, ISER - UAA. January 29, 2009 [PDF:637KB]
• Comparison of Recent Sport and Commercial Fisheries Economic Studies - Gunnar Knapp, Professor of Economics, ISER - UAA. January 29, 2009 [PDF:697KB]
• The Economic Impacts and Contributions of Sportsfishing in Alaska, 2007 [PDF:5.70MB]
• The Seafood Industry in Alaska's Economy - January 2009 [PDF:1.33MB]

Anchorage Meeting - Information Presented on October 9, 2008

• Meeting Audio [MP3:102.23MB]
• Presentation by Ray Riutta, Executive Direct, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute - October 9, 2008 [PDF:23KB]
• Report to the Cook Inlet Task Force on the Buy-Back Program under the Alaska Limited Entry Act, Bruce Twomley. Commission Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission - October 7, 2008 [PDF:511KB]
• Issues Related to the 2008 Upper Cook Inlet Salmon Season - ADF&G, Septembr 23, 2008 [PDF:6.71MB]

Anchorage Meeting - Information Presented on June 25, 2008

Note: Section 8, Documents 1-5 are answers to information requests made to the Department in previous meetings.

• Meeting Audio [MP3:24.57MB]
• Section 1 - doc 6a - Introduction to Genetics [PDF:1.08MB]
• Section 2 - doc 6b - Post-season Stock Composition Analysis of Upper Cook Inlet Sockeye Salmon Harvest, 2005-2007 [PDF:2.50MB]
• Section 3 - Back up doc 7a - Upper Cook Inlet Salmon Management Plans and Issues - Mar 9, 2007 [PDF:438KB]
• Section 3 - Back up doc 7b - Upper Cook Inlet Stocks of Concern Recommendation - Sept 25, 2007 [PDF:219KB]
• Section 3 - Back up doc 7c - Upper Cook Inlet Potential Management Options - Jan 24, 2008 [PDF:309KB]
• Section 3 - Back up doc 7d - Upper Cook Inlet Stocks of Concern Follow-up on Yentna River Sockeye Salmon [PDF:62KB]
• Section 4 - doc 7e - Susitna Sockeye Salmon Salmon Action Plan - Feb 8, 2008 [PDF:239KB]
• Section 5 - Back up doc 7f - Matanuska-Susitna Region Salmon Research Plan - Mar 18, 2008 [PDF:685KB]
• Section 5 - Back up doc 7g - Anchor River Chinook Salmon Stock Status and Action Plan - Nov 2001 [PDF:100KB]
• Section 5 - Back up doc 7h - Kvichak River Sockeye Salmon Stock Status and Action Plan - Nov 2006 [PDF:302KB]
• Section 6 - doc 8 - Economic Significance of Fishing in Alaska During 2007 - Jun 25, 2008 [PDF:225KB]
• Section 7 - doc 9 - Management and Stock Status of Nothern and Western Cook Inlet Sport Fisheries [PDF:1.61MB]
• Section 8 - doc 1 - License Sales by Region between 2001 and 2007 [PDF:16KB]
• Section 8 - doc 2 - Participation, Catch, and Harvest in Alaska Sport Fisheries During 2004 [PDF:5.68MB]
• Section 8 - doc 3 - Upper Cook Inlet Subsistence Harvest between 1980 and 2007 [PDF:13KB]
• Section 8 - doc 4 - Upper Cook Inlet Drift and Set Gillnet Participation 1995 - 2007 [PDF:12KB]
• Section 8 - doc 5 - Management Actions in the Cook Inlet Fisheries to Conserve Northern Cook Inlet Sockeye and Coho Salmon [PDF:15KB]

Mat-Su Meeting - Information Presented on May 29, 2008

• Meeting Audio - part 1 [MP3:112.74MB]
• Meeting Audio - part 2 [MP3:110.00MB]
• An Overview of the Alaska Board of Fisheries Process - Jim Marcotte, Executive Director, Alaska Board of Fisheries, ADF&G [PDF:1.08MB]
• Economic Impacts and Net Economic Value of Cook Inlet Commercial and Sport Salmon Fisheries: What We Know and What We Don't Know - Gunnar Knapp, Professor of Economics, UAA - May 29, 2008 [PDF:27KB]
• Ghost Dollars and Economics - The Economic Value of Sport vs Commercial Fishing, Roland Maw [PDF:46KB]
• Testimoney from Carl Grauvogel on Salmon Management - Retired ADF&G Biologist [PDF:76KB]
• Letter to Curt Menard, Mayor of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, from Tom Kluberton, Chairman - May 16, 2008 [PDF:95KB]
  1. Policy for the Management of Sustainable Salmon Fisheries - 5 AAC 39.222 [PDF:469KB]
  2. Susitna Sockeye Salmon Stock Status and Action Plan - ADF&G, Feb 2008 [PDF:153KB]
  3. Kvichak River Sockeye Salmon Stock Status and Action Plan - Steve Morstad, Timothy Backer, ADF&G, Nov 2006 [PDF:820KB]
  4. Norton Sound Shaktoolik & Unalakleet Subdistricts Chinook Salmon Stock Status and Action Plan - Wesley Jones, ADF&G [PDF:595KB]
• Letter to Representative Craig Johnson, from Bob Shavelson, Executive Director, Cook Inlet Keeper - June 3, 2008 [PDF:89KB]
• Guide to Meeting Documents from the February 1-12, 2008 Board of Fisheries Upper Cook Inlet Finfish Meeting - Jim Marcotte, Executive Director, Alaska Board of Fisheries, ADF&G [PDF:63KB]
• A 5-Year Assessment Based on the Marine Stewardship Council Program - The Commercial Alaska Salmon Fisheries Managed by the ADF&G - Oct 30, 2007 [PDF:559KB]
• The Matanuska Susitna Basin Salmon Conservation Partnership Brochure [PDF:548KB]
• Log of individuals and organizations testifying [PDF:59KB]

Soldotna Meeting - Information Presented on May 22, 2008

• Gavel to Gavel Audio - part 1 [MP3:15.15MB]
• Gavel to Gavel Audio - part 2 [MP3:19.89MB]
• Economic Comparisons of Commercial and Sport Fisheries: Measures, Things to Keep in Mind, and Potential Misuses - Gunnar Knapp, Professor of Economics, UAA - May 22, 2008 [PDF:27KB]
• Cook Inlet Map [JPG:58KB]
• Central Northern Portion of Upper Cook Inlet [JPG:54KB]
• Testimony from Len Malmquist [PDF:18KB]
• Testimony from the Cook Inlet Sportfishing Caucus - Bob Penney [PDF:21KB]
• Testimony from Don Johnson [PDF:46KB]
• Testimony from the South Central Alaska Dip-netters - Dennis Gease [PDF:10KB]
• Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association - Gary Fandrei, Executive Director [PDF:1.96MB]
• Proposed Findings by United Cook Inlet Drift Assocciation [PDF:803KB]
• Testimony from Mel Krogseng [PDF:26KB]
• Economic Values of Sport, Personal Use, and Commercial Salmon Fishing in Upper Cook Inlet - Kenai River Sportfishing Association [PDF:4.86MB]
• Comments on Cook Inlet Surveillance Audit - Kenai River Sportfishing Association [PDF:73KB]
• Testimony from Bruce Knowles [PDF:102KB]
• Commercial Harvest, Unemployment, and Taxable Sales figures from the Kenai Peninsula Borough from 1987 through 2007 [PDF:16KB]
• A Primer on Salmon Escapement Goals and Fisheries Management in Alaska, Charoles O. Swanton, ADF&G, Division of Sport Fish [PDF:2.30MB]
• Overview of Upper Cook Inlet Salmon Management & Management Plans, John Hilsinger, ADF&GDirector of Commercial Fisheries [PDF:351KB]
• Log of individuals and organizations testifying [PDF:85KB]

Correspondence

• Letter to Task Force from the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen's Assocation - February 11, 2009 [PDF:169KB]
• Letter to Task Force from the United Cook Inlet Driftnet Assocation - January 23, 2009 [PDF:90KB]
• Letter from Mat-Su Mayor's Blue Ribbon Sportsmen Committee to the Task Force - December 5, 2008 [PDF:161KB]
• Letter from Kenai Area Fisherman's Coalition to the Task Force - October 27, 2008 [PDF:60KB]

Background Links and Documents

• Economic Significance of Sport Fishing in Alaska - Sport Fishing Contributes Money and Jobs to the Alaskan Economy 
• 2008 Mat-Su Basin Salmon Science & Restoration Symposium [PDF:3.55MB]
• Emergency Regulations Regarding Drift Gillnet Use in the Cook Inlet Area [PDF:70KB]
• AK Dept. of Fish & Game - Division of Commercial Fisheries 
• AK Dept. of Fish & Game - Division of Commercial Fisheries - Upper Cook Inlet Fisheries - Salmon and Herring 
• AK Dept. of Fish & Game - Cook Inlet Fisheries - Sport, Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence 
• AK Dept. of Fish & Game - Sport Fish Division  [CFM]
• AK Dept of Fish & Game - Board of Fisheries - Upper Cook Inlet February 2008 meeting (scroll to bottom) 
• Review of Salmon Escapement Goals in Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska, 2007  [PDF]
• Post-season Stock Compisition Analysis of Upper Cook Inlet Sockeye Salmon Harvest, 2005-2007  [PDF]
• ADF&G Press Release: Upper Cook Inlet 2008 Outlook for Commercial Salmon Fishing [PDF:129KB]
• ADF&G Susitna Sockeye Salmon Action Plan - February 2008 [PDF:153KB]
• Letter from United Cook Inlet Drift Assocation to Task Force [PDF:66KB]
• Letter from Senator Wagoner to Commissioner Lloyd [PDF:64KB]
• Letter from John Hilsinger, Director, Division of Commerical Fisheries & Charlie Swanton, Director, Division of Sport Fish, to Senator Wagoner [PDF:211KB]